<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Between 1942 and 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer gathered the most brilliant minds of the age at Los Alamos, New Mexico to create something magnificent and terrifying. The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage.</font></div>
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</span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:16px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab?ref=hl" target="_blank">The Manhattan Project</a></span></font><font style="font-size:13px" color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:16px"> is turning a year old and to celebrate we're having a birthday blowout for this snotty, cranky, explosive one-year-old with four new plays by Cleveland playwrights, including Katie Walker, Mike Geither, Val Kozlenko, and Tom Hayes.</span></font><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:16px">Now we need some great Cleveland Actors to join us! </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:16px"><br>
<br>Please join us to meet and work with some amazing writers on brand new 10-minute plays!<br><br>Meet & Greet will be 8:00pm, TONIGHT, April 1 on Mahall's Main Stage at 13224 Madison Ave in Lakewood.</span></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1243489849058974/" target="_blank">Meet & Greet facebook event</a></font><br>
<br><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:16px">Performance will be 8:00pm April 29, also on Mahall's Main Stage.</span></font><br>
</div><div><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/489814791130399/" target="_blank">Manhattan Project Birthday Blowout! facebook event</a><br>
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<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial black, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">What exactly is The </span><span style="font-size:large">Manhattan</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large">Project - Cleveland Lab</span><span style="font-size:large">?</span></font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Based on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York, The Manhattan Project wants to introduce Cleveland actors and playwrights to each other by organizing a monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays. </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Participating artists will meet early in the month and will be broken into teams, each with one playwright. The playwright will then be given a writing prompt to write a new 10-minute play based on the prompt and including all the team's actors. The rest of the evening the team members will get to know each other and get a feel for each other's skills and voices. </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif">These 10-minute plays are not an end in themselves. Through these small collaborations we hope to build relationships between the two most vulnerable artists in theatre; the actors who put themselves on stage and the playwrights who pour themselves onto the page. Perhaps these 10-minute plays will grow into longer works or maybe these collaborations will become partnerships on larger projects.</font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</span></a> </span>or just show up at the Meet & Greet TONIGHT, April 1.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222">For more info and updates </font><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab" target="_blank">like us on facebook.</a></font></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Some additional notes on the project:</font></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00.</font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">It's up to each team to schedule rehearsals together. Based on experience, it shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours of rehearsal time to get these plays on their feet.</font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif">Playwrights are invited in advance of the meet & Greet. </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Playwrights are invited based on participation in past Manhattan Project events, so please come to our events so we can get to know you!</font></b></li>
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